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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Bull Connor's Birmingham.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of 1963, how many negro students were attending integrated schools?
(a) 10 per cent.
(b) 13 per cent.
(c) 9 per cent.
(d) 4 per cent.

2. As a first step of the meetings with the white Senior Citizens Committee, some of the merchants agreed to remove what?
(a) The food and drinks that the Negro community didn't like.
(b) The jim-crow signs from their stores.
(c) Signs with only white people on them.
(d) The Bull Conner signs from their stores.

3. By 1963, more than how many African nations had risen from colonial bondage?
(a) Thirty-four.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Twenty-two.

4. When Mahatma Gandhi and his followers had faced the guns of the British Empire in India with nonviolence how many people did they free from colonialism?
(a) More than four hundred million.
(b) More than four hundred and fifty million.
(c) More than five hundred million.
(d) More than three hundred and fifty million

5. In MLK's description of the "armies" that were marching in Birmingham, who does he say that doctors marched with?
(a) Lawyers.
(b) Nurses.
(c) Window cleaners.
(d) Custodians.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Vice President of the United States is quoted saying," Emancipation was a Proclamation but" is not what?

2. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch's daughter aids him in dispersing a mob by doing what?

3. In 1963, MLK states that the Negro dared to do what for the first time?

4. What law does MLK say the Supreme Court retreated from it's own position by approving?

5. What does MLK talk about in "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963" that celebrates it's 100th birthday in 1963?

(see the answer key)

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